Linux-Setup Digest #388, Volume #19 Sun, 13 Aug 00 10:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: star office 5.2 on red hat 6.2??? (Thomas Rasmussen)
Re: Remote login problem. Please Help! (Colin Watson)
Re: IRC help needed (Colin Watson)
MP3 converter (Julian Bordas)
xanim on rh6.2 - work bad. (Yuval Yohai)
Please help. Compiling aftermath (Robert Stia)
Re: Partition Size Advice ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: how to boot multiple drives with lilo
Re: How bad is the cpu load of IDE drives? (J Bland)
message in secure log file? (Andrey Shipsha)
Midnight commander and rpm packages browsing problems ("Mad@Spammers")
Re: Serial Mouse in Redhat 6.2 (spinout)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LILO? ("Thomas Daniels")
Re: MP3 converter (Alex)
Upgrade RH 5.2 to 6.2 (Jon)
Re: Linux on AMD (sideband)
Re: Funny - NO, create subnets: No local interfaces - can-u-help pls? ("Dr. Tu Yu")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Isaac)
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Subject: Re: star office 5.2 on red hat 6.2???
From: Thomas Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 10:13:41 GMT
>>>>> "John" == John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cokey de Percin
John> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>> I haven't seen the problem and I just installed SO 5.2 on RH 6.2
>> with no problems. My system is strictly vanilla. I can't imagine
>> what the problem is
John> Does SO ship as part of the standard RH distribution ? If not,
John> where do you get it ? Can it be downloaded or is it too big ?
You can download it from http://www.sun.com/staroffice I believe it's
about 100Megs (but can't remember)
Many distributions ship with staroffice when you buy it, but not the
downloadable distributions.
/Thomas
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-- Homer Simpson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Remote login problem. Please Help!
Date: 13 Aug 2000 10:15:35 GMT
psybertech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I triy to telnet to my linux server remotely I get the following:
>#########################
>Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX...
>Connected to psybertech.dyns.cx.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>Password:
>#########################
Sorry, how's this a problem? Are you trying to turn telnet off, or is
there something else you forgot to paste in, or are you trying to get it
to give you a login prompt as well ('telnet -l user' may be your friend
here)?
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling,
From glen to glen, and down the mountainside ..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: IRC help needed
Date: 13 Aug 2000 10:19:33 GMT
Joe Blow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good IRC program that does NOT uses xwindows ? I
>need on that can be used under a shell account.
ircii is one of the fairly canonical IRC clients; a lot of people swear
by BitchX; I personally like irssi-text (depending on your distribution,
it may be packaged with irssi proper).
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Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"This is the only networking technology
that earns frequent flyer miles." - RFC 2549
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From: Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MP3 converter
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:56:24 +1000
Hello
I'm looking for something to convert wav files to MP3's I have
not found anything on Tucows.
Any ideas where to go?
Ta
Julian
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From: Yuval Yohai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xanim on rh6.2 - work bad.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:30:49 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello
My "off the CD" xanim works bad on my RH6.2 with ATI mach32 8MB card.
It shows the video clip with horiz stripes and not in the right speed.
Looking for suggestions.
Thanks,
Yuval
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Stia)
Subject: Please help. Compiling aftermath
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 04:59:08 GMT
Downloaded compiled and installed a new kernel. 2.2.16, replacing
2.2.5-15 that came with my RedHat 6.0 distro. My first try at
upgrading.
My new lilo.conf. is exactly the same as before the upgrade. the image
line in the file is " image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15" There was a link
from linux to linux-2.2.5-15 in the /usr/src/ file. I broke that link
when I renamed the old linux file. The new linux,after extracting the
file from the tarball, doen't show any link.
Question: Why does the config file still refer to that link? I know
that the new kernel is booting and running. Can I edit the lilo.conf
file without any danger of screwing up Lilo? and, can I also delete
all of the old 2.2.5-15 stuff from /usr/src/ ...and../boot/ ?
Have a copy of vmlinuz in the base directory /, Should that be there
also?
Also get a message at boot-up for several functions that
says,"/boot/system.map has an incorrect kernel version"
How do I fix that?
Bob -Still learninnn...
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: 13 Aug 2000 11:32:49 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: writes
:>> 6.4GB Hd...
:>> /usr = 5GB
:>> /root = 500MB
:>> /home = 500MB
:>> /swap = 127MB
: Apart from weight of tradition, why do usr, root and home have to be
: different partitions ?
So that /usr can be read-only and /home can be read-write. (I assume he
means / istead of /root). So that everytime you mess up your home
partition you don't also mess up your /. And vice versa. So that you
can comfortably clone your OS without also cloning your own files. And
vice versa. So you can upgrade or multi-install in functional units.
Etc. Etc.
He forgot to list /var as a separate partition. That's quite important.
I really hate runaway log files growing to swamp / or /home.
If you really don't know this and you aren't just trolling, go check
out the Partition-HOWTO.
There are some legitimate reasons for making a one partition system.
They boil down to "the owner is an idiot and/or doesn't care about
preserving and maintaining his system, so he might as well do the
laziest thing available, as he'll throw it all away tomorrow anyhow".
Peter
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to boot multiple drives with lilo
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:55:46 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Am 13.08.00, 04:30:09, schrieb xyz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
>=20
zum Thema Re: how to boot multiple drives with lilo:
> Thanks for the help, I just now got a chance to try it out. so
> i tried adding:
> other=3D/dev/hdc
> label=3Dredhat
> to my lilo.conf and rerunning lilo, now when i select the redhat
> option at boot, the second lilo only reaches "li". Any ideas?
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com.
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Hi,
here's en excerpt from the lilo readme:
=84LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage b=
oot=20
loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a=
=20
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map =
installer.=93
After rerunning lilo, did you get the =84added redhat=93 message?
Also, is redhat really in =84/dev/hdc=93, or perhaps in =84/dev/hdc2=93?=
I don't=20
know much about redhat, but in my suse the boot image is on an own parti=
tion.
Hope it helps,
rude
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: How bad is the cpu load of IDE drives?
Date: 13 Aug 2000 12:11:34 GMT
>The question is, should I go w/ a scsi drive or a cheapo IDE drive. For a
>while I had a plextor 32x/12x/10x ide cdrw drive hooked up and when it was
>writing @ 12x my system nearly died. I tossed it over to a junk windoze
>PC on the lan, but I wonder if the problem was due to it being IDE or
>perhaps some important missing setting like dma.
>
>How bad is IDE performance? I'm not sure about what (E)IDE controller is
>on my mainboard. It isn't that old; I bought it because it has an onboard
>controller for ultra2 uw-scsi.
If you're going to writing stuff at high speeds as well as using the machine
you really want SCSI. Depends if you have the cash but SCSI is much nicer
for these sorts of things.
It is quite possible that the machine is not set up correctly to use the IDE
devices.
What does /sbin/hdparm /dev/hda (or whatever devices your hdd/cdrw etc one)
report. eg on this machine it gives
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on) [This is the important one to have on]
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 526/255/63, sectors = 8452080, start = 0
Some newer ide chipsets aren't supported properly in the latest kernels and
need a patch for your kernel (I use 2.2.16 with hedrick's ide patch:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ iirc).
Frinky
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Email: j.bland at liv.ac.uk Liverpool University
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From: Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: message in secure log file?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:34:30 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could anyone please explain to me what this message means in my secure
log file:
pam_console[957]: console tty1 is owned by UID 0
pam_console[957]: console tty1 is a character device
I am using RH 6.2. I am pretty sure I have not seen this message
before... Is it good or bad news in this message?
Cheers,
Andrey.
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:50:41 -0300
From: "Mad@Spammers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Midnight commander and rpm packages browsing problems
Hi Folks!
I use mc to browse through rpm packages' directory structure. It works
fine with mc4.5.40 but newest versions don't allow for this: they only
show basic info on the package (header, install and upgrade scripts
links etc) but no directories and files. I've tried to figure out the
command mc issues to rpm to do this but seemingly they are identical.
Does somebody know what should I change to retrieve the old behaviour in
newer mc versions?
Thanks for your help.
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:54:45 +0800
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse in Redhat 6.2
From: spinout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,it.comp.linux,it.comp.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
in article 9Bqi5.2898$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim C. Cox at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 4/8/00 11:17 AM:
> I had my PS/2 mouse port get flaky on me so I got one of those adapters to
> plug the PS/2 mouse into a DB9 serial port. Trouble is I can't figure out
> what I need to do to configure the mouse. When I boot I get a message that
> the PS/2 mouse has been removed but it doesn't detect the serial connect and
> allow me to configure the device as a MS Intellimouse Serial. Any clues?
>
> TIA
> Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Its likely that will not work unless you have an old ps/2 mouse as I hear
the electronics in newer mice wont work with an adapter on a serial port.
Easier to go and buy a new serial mouse.... cheers 8)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:05:44 +0100
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> > But OTOH. You're too thin. ;-)
>>
>> Tell me about it... No matter what I eat., I just CAN'T seem to put on
>> weight...
>>
> Time to visit your doctor...
Why? 10 1/2 stone's only a few lbs under weight for my height.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:07:09 +0100
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> No. I'm doing it out of the goodness of me 'art, plus a side order of
>> slightly entertaining troll baiting...
>>
> So. You're a troll? No?
No. You're the troll I'm baiting.
>*shakes head in disbelief*<
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:04:54 +0100
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> > Maybe turning into Moby Dick!?
>>
>> Some kind of Dick, anyway...
> Dick? No. I'm a whimp.
Someone here doesn't understand a simple british insult...
Over here Dick == Penis
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From: "Thomas Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:20:46 -0700
Hi,
Going to install LibraNet on a second drive. Win95 on the first. Where does
LILO get installed? Is it just easier to not install and boot from a floppy.
Thank's
Thomas
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MP3 converter
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:35:53 -0400
Julian Bordas wrote:
> Hello
> I'm looking for something to convert wav files to MP3's I have
> not found anything on Tucows.
>
> Any ideas where to go?
>
Try this.
http://mikehardy.net/cdr/
Alex.
> Ta
>
> Julian
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:42:16 -0400
From: Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Upgrade RH 5.2 to 6.2
Looking for opinions and experiences on upgrading RedHat 5.2
to Redhat 6.2. Any major problems or has it gone smoothly ?
Jon
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:54:40 -0400
blowfish wrote:
> "David C." wrote:
> >
> > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > Only sucky-crappy distros like RH, Debian, etc. , and so on you need to
> > > recompile for anything other than the generic stuff.
> >
> > *sigh*
> >
> > RedHat most certainly does release 586 and 686 kernel builds. My PII
> > and PPro systems all run with an i686-built kernel.
> >
> > > Even soundcard, SMP, pentium, ata/dma a bunch of scsi, GForce video,
> > > etc runs right out of the box without any messing around.
> >
> > Congratulations. Yours is not the only distribution that works "out of
> > the box".
> >
> > But I'm surprised you are concerned with "messing around", since (as you
> > wrote in another post in this thread) you recompile everything anyway.
> >
> > -- David
>
> I install for friends too. :-)
> Most of them just want it quick. So. Default installation suit them
> well.
>
> I recompile everything as a learning experience. :-)
>
> --
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> (c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000. All Rights Reserved.
HRm....
Why someone wouldn't want to tailor their kernel to the hardware they have is
beyond me.... The machine boots and runs faster if it doesn't have to wade
through 400 different card drivers, insert modules, etc, just to get eth0
working.
But then again, maybe I'm willing to work for something good, rather than
accepting what someone else has done as "ok".
-SSB
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From: "Dr. Tu Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Funny - NO, create subnets: No local interfaces - can-u-help pls?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:58:47 GMT
Ian,
Not sure. Details you provide are skimpy but here goes.
Subnets are modified with Linuxconf -> network-> host information, or
ifconfig on the command line. Not in smb.conf, so I would restore the
smb.conf changes you made. If you have a network "all of the devices on the
same wire" then you have a network. However, you can break that network
into smaller subnets.
This is done by adding a subnet mask or network mask. Subnet masking is
complicated but to simplify, if you're using a Class C intra-network,
192.168.xxx.xxx then use the default subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 on all
devices and assign IP addresses in the range xxx.001-253. For example,
192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.253 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 addresses
192.168.1.0 and 192.168.1.254 are reserved for TCP use.
On Linux enter ifconfig to display the interface configurations, on W98 run
winipcfg.exe. The IP addresses and subnet masks should match.
Pls post more details and status
"Ian Turnbui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8mritg$kh0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm getting this:-
> ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting
> and then nmbd daemon doesn't start. Can anyone help? I searched
> smb.conf for the word subnet and enabled aome options by removing the
;
> that was used to comment some lines out but this had no effect. I would
> gladly accept any help, folks
> TIA
>
> Ian Turnbull
> 0961 931941
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Isaac)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:59:13 GMT
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:08:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hey, I'm not a scholar of 1950's yankeeland... Why should I care how to
>spell the name of a political plonker?
>
Because you want to be credible? You did introduce the topic.
Isaac
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